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On Nov 29, 2011, at 10:51 AM, Bradner, Scott wrote:

> to be pedantic - a BCP stands for the best way we know how to do something
> it is not required that the process actually be in use before the BCP is 
> adopted
> 
> as Mike O'Dell once said, if BCPs had to reflect what was actually being done 
> we 
> could never have a BCP defining good manners on the IETF mailing list
> 
> see RFC 2026 - it says
>   The BCP subseries of the RFC series is designed to be a way to
>   standardize practices and the results of community deliberations.  A
>   BCP document is subject to the same basic set of procedures as
>   standards track documents and thus is a vehicle by which the IETF
>   community can define and ratify the community's best current thinking
>   on a statement of principle or on what is believed to be the best way
>   to perform some operations or IETF process function.
> 
> i.e, the IETF's "best current thinking" on the "best way" to do something - 
> not
> 'describing the way something is done'
> 
> this has always been the case - e.g., RFC 6410 described a new standards track
> not the (not well used) existing standards track
> 
> Scott
> 
> On Nov 29, 2011, at 10:43 AM, Paul Hoffman wrote:
> 
>> On Nov 28, 2011, at 1:25 PM, Ronald Bonica wrote:
>> 
>>> On October 10, 2011, the IESG issued a last call for comments regarding 
>>> draft-weil-shared-transition-space-request-09 (IANA Reserved IPv4 Prefix 
>>> for Shared CGN Space). While the community did not display consensus 
>>> supporting the draft, it also did not display consensus against the draft. 
>>> Therefore, I will submit the draft to the full IESG for its consideration 
>>> at its December 1 teleconference. The draft will be published as a BCP if a 
>>> sufficient number of IESG members ballot "Yes" or "No Objection", and if no 
>>> IESG member ballots "Discuss".
>> 
>> Regardless of whether or not IESG members support the allocation in this 
>> document, it is *not* a BCP. There is no current practice in this area; if 
>> there was, any of the /10s being used could be used. RFC 5735 is a BCP 
>> because the addressed listed were already known to be used for the purposes 
>> described; draft-weil-shared-transition-space-request is, as its title says, 
>> a request for a new allocation.
>> 
>> If the IESG decides to publish this document, please be forthright and call 
>> it a Proposed Standard.
>> 
>> --Paul Hoffman
>> 
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